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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Happy Fourth! Independence Day! God bless America!

this picture is only one of many i love, others hang in my studio office, and someday i will share them with you. they mean a lot to me, as i worked with the military for almost three decades.

understanding our freedoms have gone sour with some i think, and that makes me sad. things in this short life of ours, taken for granted......if only, we all had the time to remember, reminisce, talk with our children and grands about liberties we all have here in our country and they may not bat an eye thinking it is the same everywhere else or even wondering if it is. our history is important, because it is very different now and changing everyday. God Bless America

maybe i don't give enough credit to the population out there, but what i've seen and read, is upsetting.

so while i wish you a great day off, time with family, resting or just reading a book, i hope you think of how we got to this place, save haven, protected by loyal military and their families.

please remember that they, our military men and women, may not be home celebrating the 4th with their families, they are out there protecting us and our freedoms, our independence, us. Home of the Brave!

recent tragedy's in Arizona are just heartbreaking. my thoughts and prayers go to those brave men and their families this day. God bless them!

God bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above;
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home, sweet home.
God bless America,
My home, sweet home.

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at
the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the
perilous fight,O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly
streaming?And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave
proof through the night that our flag was still there.Oh, say does that
star-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the
brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,Where
the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,What is that which the
breeze, o'er the towering steep,As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half
discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,In full
glory reflected now shines in the stream:'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh
long may it waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the
brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc
of war and the battle's confusion,A home and a country should leave us no
more!Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.No
refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight, or the
gloom of the grave:And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth waveO'er
the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when
freemen shall standBetween their loved home and the war's
desolation!Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued
landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.Then
conquer we must, when our cause it is just,And this be our motto: "In God is
our trust."And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveO'er the
land of the free and the home of the brave!